Serious question. If we’re supposed to agree that the 850,000 PPC folks don’t “deserve a voice” in our democracy, what do we do about them? Just pretend they don’t exist?
I mean, did people in Germany sit around and ask themselves this very question when the Nazi party started to gain steam? Whatever their response was, clearly it was wrong. We should , you know, try to do better.
What I’m reading is “we just can’t tolerate it”. Okay. Yes. Obviously. I’m not asking whether we should tolerate intolerance, I’m asking how we tamp it down and keep it from proliferating, not whether it’s good or bad.
I’m wondering what “we just can’t tolerate it” means when broken down into meaningful actions.
To be clear to those of you who don’t know that I often blurt out things I’m thinking about to generate a discussion - I’m not advocating for PPC to be in our parliament (yuck) but it occurs to me that if we just stick our fingers in our ears one day they WILL be.
And societies that won’t ask themselves how to solve hard problems and resort to simply ignoring them or hating those who represent them are likely to … well, get bigger problems.
Ten years ago most people in Texas would have laughed at you if you’d told them that Roe would be overturned in their state, abortions would become criminalized and women could be jailed for having one. And here we are. Waving away threats doesn’t make them actually disappear.
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